Sixty years ago on 3 February 1960, three months before the Sharpeville massacre, the UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, after spending a month travelling through Africa, delivered the famous “Winds of Change” speech in Cape Town. Back then, we were still the Union of South Africa and not a republic as yet.year, its golden anniversary – the Union having been formed in 1910.
More poignantly, Macmillan states: “What is now on trial is much more than our military strength or our diplomatic and administrative skill. It is our way of life.
The apartheid government did not yield to change as Macmillan had invited them to do. They had instead been overwhelmed by the undeniable force of the great majority of the people of South Africa and their supporters from all over the world who formed the anti-apartheid movement.
A pervasive virus infiltrates all our lives across racial, gender, sexual orientation and class lines. From peasants to kings. It’s a problem that poses such a threat to the world that we finally understand how interconnected we are. What happens in a home in Sandton affects what happens in a shack in Alex. What happens in China affects the income of a taxi driver in South Africa who will have fewer customers because of the lockdown that has been imposed in an effort to contain Covid-19.
The unity in government is a welcome break from the in-fighting that was becoming the status-quo and I hope it holds for the sake of the people because in the end, we all want a country.
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